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C. J. SCHIEMER.

CHERRY SEEDER.

APPLICATION EILED IAN. 3. 191a. RENEWED SEPT. 4. I919.

1,318,181. Patented 0C1. 7,1919.

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CHERRY SEEDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3,1918. RENEWED SEPT. 4. I9I9.

Patented Oct. 7, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct; 1919. I

Application filed January 3, 1918, Serial No. 210,130. Renewed September 4, 1919; Serial No. 321,655.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LC ARLEs J Somet me, a citizen of the United States of America,

caster, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cherry-Seeders, of which the following is a full andclear specification. l

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and durable construction, the parts 'of-which will be easy tocast' and assemble and which will be easy to operate, as more fully hereinafter set "forth.

In the drawings- I a Figure 1 is a side elevationlooking at the rear side of the machine; I

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are views hereinafter described. 1

The main standard a is provided at its lower end with a suitable device 6 for clamping the machine to the edge of a table. At its upper end it has cast integral with it an inclined-guide tube 0. In this guide tube a reciprocating head cl is mounted, saidjhead being cast integral with the seeding fork e of usual construction. This fork reciprocates through a stripper f carried'by an inwardly-extending arm 9 cast integral with the guide tube. Cast integral with the face of the head Cl is apair of separated lugs or cars h, in which is journaled the upper pivot 2' 015a lin'k' j, this pivot being confined in the lugby means of a removable thol'e pin Z0 passed through the pivot at a point between the lugs Cast integral with the clamp member I) isa supplemental standard Z, curving forwardly and toward the hopper side of the machine. In the upper end of the standard Z is held a short shaft m having attached to its outer end a crank handle 02 and 'aiiixed to its inner end a crank arm 0. 'The lower end of t -e link 7' is pivotallyconnected' to r the outer end of arm 0 in the same manner. that the upper pivot of this link is: con

nected to the sliding head 'd. The hopper p is 'removably inwardly-extending shelf 9 cast integral with the main standard, this hopper being provided with a spout extension 7 at its I lower end, into which the fruit drops; di-

rectly after it is removed from the seeding prong by the stripper. Theseeding prong is adapted towork through a seeding device fastened to an I s of the usual construction-located in the depression it formed in the lower end of the hopper. V

It will be observed that by my arrangeand in front thereofand extending this standard toward the hopper and of the machine, it will be seen that I am enabledto employ a peculiarly efi'ective crank and link 'arrangement for operating the seeding prong and its carrying head; It will be ob-. served that it is-important that the'operating crank and link shall be located so that the link in its movement shall clear the guide tube and main standard. With this construction,-the link-exerts a push and pull' action on the head in a direction almost directly in the line of inclination of the guide tube, thereby materially avoiding friction and wear and thus rendering the device exceedingly easy to operate.

In Figs. 1 and 2, the hopper p is shown cast integral with the spout r and the fruitpocket at the lower end of'the hopper, so

that gravity alone is depended upon :to feed I the cherries, from the hopper proper into the feed pocket to a point over the seeding device s: In Figs. 3 and 5, I show a hopper which is automatically tilted by the rotation of a crank to insure the feeding of the cherries to the seeding means. In these coil-spring 1) connecting the forward end of 1 the hopperto the stationary arm g. To tilt the rear end of thehopper upwardly auto matically by the rotation. of the crank, I providethe hopperWit-h aitappetfw at its outer side, inthe path ofthe link 7', so that the said link moves upwardly, strikes the under face of the tappet and tilts the hopper."-

(against the action of the spring 0) far enough to insure the deposit of at least one cherry from the hopper into the seeding pocket 19 After the link slides off the tappet in the forward movement of the link, the

spring '0 restores the hopper to its normal horizontal position, in which position it is normally held against stop-lug :0 projecting rearwardly from the stationary seeding pocket 39 The cherries pass through a hole 3/ in the I front wall of the hopper 10, this hole being amply large to permit the passage of the largest cherries singly, but not large enough to permit two cherries to pass at the same time. Agroove a is formed in the bottom of the hopper centrally thereof, so as to guide the cherries to the hole 'J, and, in order to insure the cherries in every instance dropping into the seeding pocket the forward wall of the hopper is provided with a guard flange a which curves for wardly' and downwardly toward the seed. The tappet w is preferably in the pocket. form of a headed lag-bolt tapped into a lug '7) projecting laterally from the outer wall of the hopper and locked in its adjusted fstandard and carrying at its outer end a crankhandle and at its inner end a crank arm, and a link pivotally connecting said crank arm to said sliding head.

2. In a cherry seeder, the combination of a main standard having a clamp member at its lower end and an inclined guide tube at itsupper end, a sliding head in this tube carrying a seeding prong, means coo-perating with the prong to seed cherries and strip them from the prong, a supplemental standard rising from the clamp member and extending laterally to one side, a shaft jour-v naled in the upper end of the supplemental standard and carrying a crank handle at its outer end and a crank arm at its inner end, and a pivotal link connecting said crank arm to said head.

'3. In a cherry seeder, the combination with seeding means embodying a crank mechanlsm for operating the seeding fork, of a hopper no "mally held 111 non-feeding position and carrying an adjustable'tappet" arranged in the path of said crank-mechanism, whereby in theseeding operation the crank mechanism will tilt the hopper and feed another cherry to the seeding mecha nism.

l. In a cherry seeder, the combination with seeding means embodying a seeding fork and a crank mechanism for operating the seeding-fork, of a hopper normally held in non-feeding position and adapted to be tilted into feeding position and carrying a tappetarranged in the path of said crank mechanism whereby in the seeding operation the crank mechanism will strike said tappet and thus tilt the hopper to feed another cherry to"v the seeding mechanism. V

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature. I

CHARLES J. SCHIEMER.

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